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sufficient passage way for carriages, horses, or foot passengers,
and forthwith restoring to their former condition all su<ih high-
ways, streets, lanes, alleys and side pavements as may at any
time be dug, opened or taken up.

126. They may establish reservoirs and public fountains in
such parts of the streets and squares of said city as they may
think proper, and may grant to all persona and corporate bodies
the privilege of using said water in such manner and upon such
terms and in such quantities as they may think proper.

127. They may insert and repair at the expense of the city
such number of fire plugs as they may deem necessary into the
pipes used to convey water through the streets of said city, to
be used only in cases of fire, but free from any charge therefor.

128. They may convey such water in such manner and by
such route as they may deem proper, and they may appropriate
such and so much land as may be necessary and proper for the
location and construction of any work or building appurtenant
to said water works, and any spring not attached to any dwell-
ing that may be necessary for furnishing a full supply of water.

129. If compensation shall be required by any person whose
rights may be affected by the conveyance of said water or the
appropriation of land or spring, and such person shall not be
able to agree with said corporation upon the amount of such
compensation, or if the owners, or any of them, be feme covert,
under age, non compos mentis, or out of the county, application
may be made to any justice of the peace for Frederick county
who shall thereupon issue his summons under his hand and seal,
directed to the sheriff of said county, requiring him to summon a
jury of twenty inhabitants of said county not interested in the
property to be valued, to meet on the land, or near the other
property to be valued, on a day named in said summons, not less
than ten nor more than twenty days after the issuing of the same.

130. If at the time named in said summons any of said jurors
summoned do not attend, the sheriff shall immediately summon
as many jurors as may be necessary with the jurors in attend-
ance, and from them each party or his agent, or if either be not
present in person or by agent, the sheriff for him, may strike off
four jurors, and the remaining jurors shall act as the jury of in-
quest of damages.